Places Treesandotherthings Wants to Go

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

The grounds of this Catholic boarding school are said to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.